Bedford Brown

Bedford Brown (6 June 1795-6 December 1870) was a US Senator from North Carolina (D) from 6 December 1829 to 16 November 1840, succeeding John Branch and preceding Willie Person Mangum.

Biography
Bedford Brown was born in Locust Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina in 1795, and he was elected to the House of Commons after attending the University of North Carolina for one year. In 1828, he was elected to the North Carolina Senate to fill a vacancy, and, in 1829, he was appointed to the US Senate to fill another. He resigned in 1840 due to a dispute with the state legislature, and he returned to the State Senate from 1858 to 1860. He counseled in favor of North Carolina remaining in the union before the outbreak of the American Civil War, but, after Abraham Lincoln requested troops from North Carolina to serve in the Union army, Brown supported secession. He died in 1870.